North Korea’s new Permanent Representative to the UN Kim Song presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday.

Kim replaces the previous ambassador Ja Song Nam, who left New York at the end of July.

“Before his latest appointment, Mr. Kim was Director-General of the Department of Treaty and Law in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2018,” a UN announcement on the appointment released on Thursday reads.

“Between 2011 and 2015, he served as a Counsellor at his country’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, having previously been Third Researcher in the Foreign